(11 Jun 2022, 7:23 pm)omnicity4659 wrote The train is certainly cheaper now that Northern have advances available on the day, but buses from my area twinned with onward travel from Haymarket doesn't offset the cost of fuel until I'm travelling as far as Sunderland or Alnwick...There's the time factor to take in to account too.
Did a trip the other day in the car.
Round trip of about 100 miles. 3 different locations (excluding the start and end point which was the same) and it took just over 2 hours in the car.
Including connections (forget about any missing 4's that were abandoned at the Galleries), I reckon it would be touching on 7 hours on the bus.
7 or 8 buses, depending which route I took and two different operators.
It would have been 6 hours prior to the post-pandemic cuts.
That's going to take some serious increase in fuel costs and decrease in bus fares to even consider making the switch, beyond fancying a day of gricing.
Appreciate its just one example (not that extreme), but it sums up the network across the region.